The New Year is rapidly approaching. For a lot of us it is a time for setting new goals and new beginnings.
For as long as I can remember, losing weight has always been one of my New Year’s goals.
In the past, I would listen to testimonials of friends and what helped them lose weight. I would consider the ads plastered on TV, Facebook and Google. I would get lost for hours in ‘before and after’ pictures on Instagram in hopes that their results could one day be mine too.
Many a New Years I cracked open a fresh new planner with tons of excitement as I penciled in the action plan that I was sure would help me lose the weight for good. I would set up reward systems for myself to keep me motivated and interested when things got tough. I was ready to do the damn thing.
Then after a couple of weeks of being religiously devoted to my action plans, something would happen…
I would get discouraged, bored, or *gasp* unmotivated.
Just a little quit here or there. I just didn’t want to do the workout. I couldn’t bring myself to cook another chicken breast. I just didn’t want to do any of it. So my zealous religious devotion eventually turned into an Easter/Christmas type situation.
So this brings us to maybe February….March if I was lucky. And the rest of my year would follow suit as every year before that. Starting out strong, fizzling out and then wondering why I could never make the change that I desired to see in my life.
I just seemed to be the type of person who couldn’t seem to follow through.
Many of us want to believe that losing weight is just so hard and that food just tastes too good but here’s the truth: the secret it YOU. Even if you have great success on a particular diet plan, it comes down to you CHOOSING to follow the plan.
You choosing to workout. You choosing to skip the cookies.
Likewise when you get discouraged because you didn’t see the loss on the scale you were hoping for, it is still YOU that decides to screw it all and eat the cookies because obviously the diet isn’t working. It is you that decides to skip the workout because you just don’t feel up for it.
It is YOU that decides to throw in the towel.
The most powerful agent for change in your life is YOU. This statement is both thrilling and terrifying all in one. It just depends on how you want to think about it.
I choose to be thrilled. I WANT to be the most powerful being in my world. I want to be able to enact change in my life. In fact, on my 100-pound weight loss journey the acceptance of my power has been the most game changing realization.
I decided that no matter what, I wasn’t going to quit until I reached my 100-pound weight loss. I was committed to continue until I figured it out and reached my goal.
You don’t have to be perfect. In fact, you won’t be perfect. The perfect thing is that you just keep going.
You have the power.
I hope you believe you are capable of your weight loss goals. I know it is hard and you might be where I was believing that weight loss is just hard and you are just not the type of person that sees things through to the end.
But you ARE. You just need to CHOOSE to be.
What choice can you make right this moment to take one step closer to your health goal?
I challenge you to do that thing right now.
Go be POWERFUL.
-Andrea, Journey 100 Coaching